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> Instead of trying to shoehorn Linux into Windows, they could have launched another product with some of the ideas here. Then Windows 10 would not be in limbo (in terms of UI and features).

You have cause and effect the wrong way there: Windows 10 is in limbo precisely because MS have acknowledged that massive new OS rewrites every few years isn't cost effective. Not because Microsoft can't work out how to ship a new OS. There was a press release about how Windows would adopt a different release cycle around the launch time of Win 10.

> I don't understand why Apple and Microsoft feel stuck to one OS.

I don't understand why you think Apple or Microsoft fragmenting their install base would be a good thing for business.
With a household of 4 and doing everything electrical (cooking, heating, hot water but no electric car) we use on average about 9-10 kWh per day. A bit more in the winter, a bit less in summer.
This is a well-insulated, relatively recent house in western Europe. 100kWh seems excessive to me.
Hopefully that's a typo.
Speculation? You can look at the raw market data right here and see several things that should make any critically minded person go 'hmmm': https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

How can Tether have a daily trading volume of almost 100 bln on a supply of 'just' 24 bln? Seems rather obvious that the vast majority of crypto trades are done by HFT algos and not people (or worse, that the actual supply of Tether is much higher than the reported supply).

You can't deny that Tether is a very essential component in the crypto markets. It is also an unregulated, unaudited private entity operating outside western jurisdictions, with a long history of controversies: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

Hardly the group you'd want managing a global currency system.
This page already goes a long way to fulfill your requirements: https://www.planespotters.net/special/boeing-737-max-groundi...

...however, if you don't want Boeing to "get away with it", you should boycott all their planes. Not saying we should do that though, because if Boeing goes out of business, we would be left with just one major manufacturer of passenger jets, and that's never a good thing. Already the Max issues are at least in part a result of the existing duopoly and US authorities being too lenient with Boeing because they don't want to disadvantage it against Airbus.
The failure at Boeing wasn't just some individual s/w issue. It was an organisational problem that caused them to make decisions to expedite release out of a plane that wasn't safe. The question isn't have they fixed the issue or not. The question is have they made the organisational changes to ensure that their complex hierarchy of management can't overrule technical experts about whether safe procedures have been followed. In my opinion, given the timescales and what people are reporting, the same people who pushed to get the 737Max out the door in an unsafe manner in the first place in order to meet over-ambitious targets, will probably have also been motivated to push through sign-off on these changes too.

The question is less about whether Boeing can afford another crash, it's more about whether all the individuals in the hierarchy can afford to tell their boss the 737Max isn't ready- or as is likely, that it cannot ever be made safe in an economical way.
Ryanair, which is by far the world's safest airline, has ordered 210 of the Max, having recently increased their order by 75 aircraft. So there is confidence in the aircraft in industry, at least.
Hardly. I just don't see it solving any problems for anyone in a country without robust financial institutions either, certainly not at scale.
Distort your images and videos into randomized distortions and effects
This is the new “we have no evidence masks help” or “no evidence of asymptomatic spread”.

Name a vaccine that doesn’t reduce onward transmission even as it cures disease. It’s overwhelmingly likely that the vaccine will slow transmission and foolish to throw our priors in the garbage bin.

What we don’t know yet is how much onward transmission will be reduced.
They do it by not storing keys in the index. A B-tree has copies of all the keys in the tree, and (normally) also in the data. Here, they just have slopes that get you close to the right actual element.
Note the other related submission today, which presents a learned index that claims “uniform improvement of the performance of RMI [this HN submission] in terms of query time and space occupancy”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899286
Look at their website, they say clearly that holding stablecoins is just part of the first phase.
There are many confusions mixed with stereotypical startup culture in the first video. A global stable currency is not :

- Dollarization, that is an already relatively common phenomenon (Zimbabwe, Argentina...) with controversial effects. Definitely not a silver bullet for hyperinflation.

- A payment system, that requires to work tightly on UI/UX, on cultural preferences, to adapt to local infrastructure... Exactly the reason M-pesa succeeded where many silicon valley startup failed.

And then, there are the technology choices, the stability mechanism, the regulatory aspects ...
10s of milliseconds (fig. 4)[0]

[0]: https://pub.nderjung.net/papers/emsoft20.pdf
The notifications counter isn't _gone_, just moved to the top right on the home page next to the Direct Messages button. I didn't and still don't like the change but it's not catastrophic.
The 737-8200 designation well predates either of the fatal crashes.
Simply stunning and free version available, thanks to its creator.
It's clearly a myth put about by the people who want to signal how rich they are!

It's funny, to me, the only things a Patagonia vest signals are (a) a lack of style (b) a lack of understanding of how heat escapes from the body and (c) a craven desire to fit in to a particular social scene.
I think you've described the life at most software companies. You're not programming anymore, you're building solutions to meet business needs

I think the only two places where I've actually spent most of my time writing code was in grad school (surprisingly) and when I was an intern at a web design agency where I was delegated a new client to churn out a new WordPress theme every 2-4 weeks
> Or will democracy require something akin to "martial law" to quickly decide and act on urgent matters?

After the pandemic hit the West - Europe started locking down mid-March, Trump banned EU flights on 12th - Germany (a democracy of 80 million people) passed a financial aid package on 23rd of March; US (a democracy of 300 million people) followed on the 25th.

So it's quite clear that democracies can react quickly, provided there's broad consensus of what the problem is and how to solve it; of course, things slow down when there's no consensus and conflicting views, but arguably that's a feature, not a bug.
There is a five year plan in China to basically take over the entire global automotive sector by making electric cars. They are not interested in completing with ICE cars by selling cheap ICE cars, it is all about upping the game to a better product that is BEV.

Europe had better watch out.

The US can defend their market with tariffs so everyone there drives a truck. But the longer they do that then the more out of touch they will become. It is going to be fun to see how this works out.

Tesla make great products but they are not a great market fit for Europe. There's so much scope for innovation but even now the Europe BEV efforts are ICE cars with the engine swapped out, therefore not cool.
That's a pretty odd take when Boeing airplanes have superior safety ratings than their Airbus counterpars for the most part if we exclude the 737-Max variant. I need to find sources, I am writing from memory.

I understand the situation with 737-Max safety, Boeing entirely deserves it. But, I think we should also look at the data as well and hold off on knee-jerk reactions.

Edit: http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
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Besides, if the power outage brings society into such a disarray that you can't just call an ambulance if something happened, then there is a high likeliood that having a petrol-powered car wouldn't be much better than an electric one anyway.

Europe is a big place, though. There's a lot of people living in the countryside and with much less reliable utilities compared to urban areas. Power outages do occur here too and they're even frequent in some areas. :)
Just because terms become established doesn't mean the way they got about becoming established was through clarity and careful deliberation. In fact I'd go as far as saying that more than half of the terms/notation in such fields sound like they were created as silly placeholder names which then stuck. So much so that we need a translation of their actual meaning each time they're used. Even something as basic as p(x).
I'd choose to fly on a 737 Max over any other plane, personally. Because no other plane in operation has ever received the amount of scrutiny the Max has.
Many airlines will have a fleet page like this one [1] so you can tell exactly how many they have of each model/variant.

If somebody less busy than me wants to find all these and scrape them into a "howmany737maxesdoesyourairlinehave.io" app, knock yourself out.

[1] https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/company/fleet.html
You’re right, but when referring to harsh prison sentences I think most people mean the fact the non-violent offenses like drug related ones can get you significant time.

There are crimes of desperation and crimes of selfishness, most people I think have less tolerance for one than the other.
Signal is privacy focused at the cost of functionality and IMO the UI looks like programmer art - you might like the tradeoffs but I suspect most people won't.
You'll see "737" or "737-8200" or somesuch. There are reports airlines are hiding this info.
My friend was kicked off of Instagram and took it self represented to the New Hampshire Supreme Court and won because of the fact it was a paid account which I believe he argued meant there was a breach of contract in terminating the account.

https://www.businessnhmagazine.com/article/soldati-wins-unan...

You might have similar options?
> Populism x Virtue Signal is the ideology battle from the century.

Nonsense. Populism is LITERALLY Virtue Signaling. They're the same thing. So if there's two teams, one identify with a different word for the same thing, you might as well just call them team red and team blue instead.

The actual ideological battle is between those who believe that the world is complex and that learning about the world is really hard work, but can be done through iterated improvement (i.e. people who have an education, not just on paper, but who can actually reason and critically think about the things they learn) and those who start from the assumption that they basically got it all figured out (the anti-intelectualists). This starts as a simple difference in attitude, but with time one of these becomes smarter and more knowledgeable, whereas the other stagnates.
I'm 100% certain Boeing would be able to survive as an organization. Boeing is an extremely large defense contractor and for that reason alone too big to fail.
Unsure why I'm getting down voted? Is this not true?

Edit: ah yes, fan boys.
Some call it confidence, I call it bargain shopping.
Unless you only have third-party coverage, I don’t think there’s any insurance company that would deny payment unless you were drunk or willingly taking risk somehow.
Satellites have propulsion and sometimes adjust orbit.

Maybe a bolt wont break your car, but a nail will flatten your tire.

And most of the time we don't clean much the highways: a lot of small debris end up here and there...

The problem is indeed that cleanup is expansive and not interesting when it's not such a big hazard, but after some time the sum of those small hazards become a big problem, and the sum of cleanups almost impossible.
I have the same worry when using cruise control. What I've trained myself to do is to cover the accelerator pedal when overtaking other cars or in any situation where I might have to brake. That way the car is still maintaining speed for me but I'm ready to intervene, to get back the safety margin. With adaptive cruise it may even increase the safety as both me and the cruise control can both brake.
I stand corrected, but arguably the point stands that a different designation will be sufficient to obfuscate the '737-MAX' fligths, from any consumers trying to avoid it.
Ryanair buying thing is no sign of confidence, but a sign of O'Leary smelling a bargain (and of course, the MAX qualifies at this point). He's counting on this being worked out one way or another, not necessarily the MAX being actually a good plane.
which is by far the world's safest airline

Not even on the list:

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/worlds-safest-airlines-n...
Binary search is quite slow on modern hardware, particularly for this use, where you would need to fault in a page for each probe. With a billion records that is 30 probes. They get much better than log2(n).

This is a lot like how you look up words in the dictionary. It is roughly radix-like, but the closer you get, the better the fit. If you are looking up a word that starts with S, you adjust to how broad S is as you home in.
I mostly second this. Training a neural network is like training a dog, and the loss function just describes when you'll shout "no!" and how loudly.

However, I believe that coding the network is very challenging unless you do a task that has been widely explored already. For optical flow, there was a wide consensus among SOTA papers for some years that convolutional filters, warping of the input data, and a hierarchical structure was the correct way, e.g. everything descended from FlowNet.

But turns out, a hierarchical structure can NOT correctly represent some movement patterns in the real world, like branches on a tree moving or overhead cables. So now we have a category of AI solutions that all fail in the same way in the same circumstances, plus commercial products (e.g. Skydio Drone) with the exact same issues.

The correct approach seems to be a iterative solver approach, which has been attempted with RAFT, but nobody has yet managed to design a suitable network architecture that does not require hierarchical undersampling.

Just like in your failure story, tiny mistakes in the network can prevent success for good. And you need lots of attention to detail and plenty of experience to avoid those mistakes.
> the UI looks like programmer art

The UI looks like iMessage. So it doesn't seem it should be any issue there.
I thought Qantas was the worlds safest airline by far.
> Nonsense. Populism is LITERALLY Virtue Signaling.

Interesting. I like that definition. Thanks!
Completely tone deaf proposal in the context of 1) Recent election where every single tax measure was defeated in the ballot box, and even left measures such as anti-Prop 22 and rent control was defeated (read the room ?) 2) CA government just had a $15bn surplus in a recession year and 3) Context of COVID and migration. This bill is going nowhere
Another explanation: Ryanair is a budget airline and was able to buy more 737-Maxes at a very low price, making their already cheap tickets even cheaper, allowing them to increase profit margins and cementing their status as the cheapest airline around even if that comes at the expense of safety.

Either way, both explanations are speculation and we'll have to see how that turns out.
Really. What? A manifesto of free choice??
Do not underestimate the power of passion and hobby projects. I messed around with RISC-V assembly for my own pleasure last year and ended up landing a short contract on it later.
This reminds me of using DynamoDB, which didn't (until recently) accept the empty string as a value, instead helpfully offering to change it to null. However, there was a clear difference between a field in our database that a user had intentionally left blank and null as in the missing value which was usually indicative of some kind of scripting, API, or validation error. It is rather annoying that these assumptions get made.
So there is confidence in the aircraft in industry, at least.

It's also possible that Ryanair believes that a crash wouldn't damage their business significantly. Ryanair competes almost entirely on price, to the point of removing literally everything they can in order to stay the cheapest option. A decade ago they considered removing the seats from their planes (https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/jul/01/stand-up-for-r...) as well as plans for things like making passengers pay to use the bathrooms. More recently Ryanair refused to remove middle seats in order to help stop the spread of Corona virus.

I would be very reluctant to believe Ryanair believe in the 737 Max for any reason besides cost. Safety is not a priority for them beyond meeting the absolute minimum requirements necessary to fly.
The operative part is "want you dead". Ignoring murderous intent is decidedly not what makes society possible.
I've had this in both directions.

On the one hand, I cannot remember faces at all. I've spent a lot of time painting portraits, yet still cannot remember the faces of my friends and family.

I also have a hard time comprehending audio speech when spoken at a normal talking speed. I need it sped up to be able to easily understand it.

On the other, I realized recently that I have a sense of smell far exceeding that of a normal person. I can often smell scent trails of people, even distinguishing them from each other. It's like I'm following a "path" where I can tell they've walked. The other day I walked into the men's restroom and knew without even looking who was inside before I'd opened the door, then who was in each stall without checking shoes. I wasn't walking around sniffing, just walked in to wash my hands and had an errant thought that I needed to talk to Jim, and lo, here he was in stall two. This struck me as odd, so I started asking and realized that this is unusual.

Likewise, I can remember a person's speaking voice so clearly as to be able to usually detect a person from a single word. And even actors I've only seen in one movie a decade ago, I'll pause a cartoon after a single sentence, then mentally flip through a voice match in my head before remembering where I've heard them before.

I suspect both are this way because I have absolutely terrible vision from my father's side. It started when I was very little, yet due to some unusual circumstances I didn't get glasses for six months or so when I first needed them. I wonder if that time of near blindness while developing caused my brain to grow into these other senses as compensation.
All the neighbours here on the compound bought it for subsidies only - there's no charging option in the parking garage.

Edit: Adding some numbers from https://www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2020-09/plug-in-hybrid-studie... (sorry, german)

43% of the private owners use the charging option, 18% of the company owned cars. However, due to tax incentives, 63% of all cars registered per year are company owned cars.

The incentives are that you get a substantial tax break if you register a plug-in (or electric) car - leading to the odd result that 40% of all Porsche Panameras registered are plug-in hybrid cars.
The production tools may have changed drastically, but has the end product really improved? On might argue that music and movies produced before 1998 were a lot more engaging, nowadays movies and music are produced without obvious flaws, taking away character and making it all very bland.
Not the case UK, and from what I can tell much of Europe is not allowing that at present either.

Here in the UK you may only meet other people for exercise purposes, outside. No visiting each other's homes. It's been this way in most parts of the country for months. Same in Ireland

In France there is a curfew from 8pm-6am and restaurants cannot open. There have been rules preventing meeting others at home, can't tell if they're active right now.

In Germany one person not of that household may visit another household, but only one. This is also true in Belgium.

Some areas of Spain are not allowing meeting in others homes at all.

So ... YMMV.
Related read: https://ma.tt/2021/01/new-whitehouse-gov/
Enum and variant/sum types are supported by a lot of serialization frameworks that have JSON serializations though. Thrift, Avro, Protocol Buffers, Flatbuffers etc.

JSON is not a framework for serialization anymore than XML is.
> Not to belabor the point, but what OSes are actually written in C++?

IBM i – probably best known under its original name of OS/400, the operating system of the IBM AS/400. Its lowest layer is called LIC (Licensed Internal Code), and is written in C++. In the beginning, AS/400 used a proprietary CISC processor called IMPI (never publicly documented, but its instruction set apparently resembled somewhat that of IBM 370 mainframes, without being compatible with them.) User applications and higher-level OS components were not written in IMPI, but in a virtual machine bytecode called MI. LIC was responsible for translating MI code into IMPI and providing low level OS services. The LIC was written in a secret PL/I dialect (IBM has a few of those) called PL/MP. As part of the CISC-to-RISC translation, the PL/MP code of the LIC was rewritten in C++. The higher levels of the OS, which run inside the MI virtual machine, are written in a variety of languages – C++, PL/MI (another secret PL/I dialect) and Modula 2.
Every webpage you view nowadays is at least written in HTML, including this one you're reading, mostly it also includes Javascript and CSS.
There are different ways to understand reality. For spacial understanding we have cartesian and euclidean models, the former suggests reality is digital, the latter suggests reality is analog, both give real predictions, both are true? For temporal understanding we have declarative and imperative models, the former suggests infinity exists, the latter doesn't, both give real predictions, both are true?
So many things in this post are just baffling.

> The cost to participate in TikTok’s status game is a lot higher than Instagram’s (compare a well-made dance choreography on TikTok to your median Instagram travel post)

TikTok is dominated by teenagers dancing in their bedrooms. What does he mean by "cost"? Because if it's financial cost, making a viral TokTok costs nothing, whereas taking an instagram photo with your partner on a hill in Athens at least costs two tickets to Athens. It's not technical skill either, most TikTok stars have not studied for years.
California thinks extra tax is the solution to homelessness problem. How cute.

Now let's spend 1.8b of that money on administrative overhead, and bring $ per homeless from 50k/homeless to 100k/homeless, to the same level as newgrad base salary.
Absolutely agree! I wouldn't feel safe stepping on a Boeing Max today.
I mean with a single authority you could get away with more. Not saying they have absence of ethics, just saying they could possibly be less bound to develop their tech faster without having to worry about short term trade-offs as much.

They could in this way become stronger than other nations who are more bound. With FSD they could start testing earlier even if it's not guaranteed to be completely safe, and they could adopt it immediately full scale at the point when it's definitely safer or almost as safe as humans, while in western world it would have to be much more safer than humans driving. Maybe this could mean years of advantage and they can start immediately adopting and optimising their economy.

Maybe ethics is not even the correct word. I'm talking about a trolley problem where they would be allowed to switch tracks while western world maybe not.
In this case it might mean more deaths up-front, but fewer later with optimised economy.